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NEW YORK (AP) — After nearly two decades of bitter squabbling, Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins still can't share the same table. more...
02/09/2010 7:25pm
Floyd Mayweather Jr. finalized a deal Wednesday to fight Sugar Shane Mosley on May 1 in a welterweight bout at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas.
  02/03/2010 8:22pm
RENO — In the week leading up to the Jesse Brinkley-Curtis Stevens fight, Brinkley was the quiet one between the two. He never seemed outwardly confident, rather feeding Stevens with praise and claiming that he is going to be in for the fight of...
  01/30/2010 11:23pm
RENO — Curtis Stevens told anyone who would listen that Jesse Brinkley had not fought a boxer as powerful as him and that the Yerington native couldn't last 12 rounds in the ring with him.
  01/29/2010 11:54pm
RENO — It has been a long time since Northern Nevada has seen a fight of this magnitude being played out in front of a live audience. Jesse Brinkley, though, realizes that if he doesn't get past Curtis Stevens he won't get another...
  01/28/2010 11:25pm
ATLANTA (AP) — Evander Holyfield is still planning to return to the ring, it will just be a little closer to home.
  01/28/2010 4:40pm
RENO — Boxing was a fabric of life for the Lane brothers, Terry and Tommy. Terry has vivid memories of watching big-time fights as a young boy, such as the second edition of the Riddick Bowe-Evander Holyfield trilogy. Tommy even saw some fights at...
  01/27/2010 11:13pm
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Guys wearing jeans and cowboy hats ran through dry ice and past the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, sparklers firing from the tips of the flagpoles they carried.
  01/19/2010 8:17pm
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Boxing trainer Roger Mayweather was bound over for trial Friday in Nevada on three felony charges alleging he beat and strangled a female boxer during a confrontation at an apartment he owned.
  01/15/2010 4:02pm
Manny Pacquiao will fight March 13 at Cowboys Stadium, but not against Floyd Mayweather Jr.
  01/10/2010 7:54pm
While Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s camp believes his prospective bout with Manny Pacquiao can be saved, Pacquiao's promoter says he's moving on.
  01/08/2010 4:01pm
Floyd Mayweather Jr. blamed Manny Pacquiao for the collapse of their prospective bout Thursday, claiming the Filipino boxer refuses to accept a reasonable compromise on drug testing concerns.
  01/07/2010 5:45pm
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Manny Pacquiao upped the ante Wednesday in his standoff with Floyd Mayweather Jr. by filing a lawsuit alleging that Mayweather and others defamed him by falsely accusing Pacquiao of using performance-enhancing drugs.
  12/30/2009 4:22pm
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Promoter Bob Arum delivered what he said would be his last proposal Sunday to salvage the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., which has been on life support over a blood testing dispute.
  12/27/2009 10:05pm
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The proposed megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was thrown into jeopardy Tuesday with a demand by Mayweather's camp that both fighters be subjected to Olympic-type drug testing in the weeks leading up...
  12/22/2009 9:35pm
RENO -- In the final minutes of Friday night's fight, Derek Hinkey wanted the fight to go on as he motioned Paul Mendez to come forward. But when Mendez answered the call, laying on a flurry of hits to the McDermitt, Nev., native, Hinkey's...
  12/12/2009 10:54am
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